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Showing posts with label Non Fiction. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Complete Juicer: A Healthy Guide to Making Delicious, Nutritious Juice and Growing Your Own Fruits and Vegetables by Abigail R. Gehring

The Complete Juicer: A Healthy Guide to Making Delicious, Nutritious Juice and Growing Your Own Fruits and Vegetables
Juicing has taken the world by storm. And it's no wonderdrinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices helps you lose weight and easily absorb essential nutrients, giving you energy and making you look and feel healthier! With this book, you'll learn which fruits and vegetables are the best for juicing and how you can grow them in a small garden plot, in pots in a windowsill or on a porch, or even right in your kitchen.

The Magic of Mini Pies: Sweet and Savory Miniature Pies and Tarts by Abigail R. Gehring

The Magic of Mini Pies: Sweet and Savory Miniature Pies and Tarts
Miniature pies are everything good about baking—fun to make, delicious to eat, quick to prepare, beautiful to serve, and easily customizable! With a miniature pie maker or muffin tins, you can make each guest's favorite kind of pie in just the right proportions in no time. Perfect for parties, bed-and-breakfast hosts, or anyone who has a hankering for pie but doesn't want to spend hours in the kitchen, it's no wonder that mini pies and tarts are all the rage.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Social Value of Drug Addicts: Uses of the Useless by Merrill Singer and J Bryan Page

Social Value of Drug Addicts: Uses of the Useless
Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless—culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people.

The Daily Cookie: 365 Tempting Treats for the Sweetest Year of Your Life by Anna Ginsberg

The Daily Cookie: 365 Tempting Treats for the Sweetest Year of Your Life
365 recipes for cookies that celebrate historic and pop-culture events every day of the year, with anecdotes, trivia, and full-color photos of each cookie.
The Daily Cookie: 365 Tempting Treats for the Sweetest Year of Your Life is a veritable cookiepedia served up with lighthearted historical and celebratory anecdotes, quotes, and trivia designed to inspire the baker in you 365 days a year.

American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza by Peter Reinhart

American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza
On the subject of pizza, there is never a shortage of opinions. Allegiances run from the general (Chicago versus New York style, Neapolitan versus Roman) to the particular (Pepe's versus Sally's, Gino's East versus Pizzeria Uno), and new interpretations ever extend the pizza frontier.In AMERICAN PIE, master bread baker Peter Reinhart follows the trail from Italy to the States, capturing the stories behind the greatest artisanal pizzas of the Old World and the New. Beginning his journey in Genoa, Reinhart scours the countryside in search of the fabled focaccia col formaggio.

Sweet & Easy Vegan: Treats Made with Whole Grains and Natural Sweeteners by Robin Asbell

Sweet & Easy Vegan: Treats Made with Whole Grains and Natural Sweeteners
Here is the delicious answer to every vegan's most important question: What's for dessert? From cookies and brownies to cakes and pies (and even vegan "ice cream"), author Robin Asbell proves that nothing is lost when choosing to forgo dairy.

The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials by Ronald D Story

The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials
An illustrated A-to-Z guide to all things alien. Over 400 entries from more than 100 contributors cover everything from the incidents and witnesses involved to the concepts at stake and experts' personal position statements.

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less by Mark Kistler

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less
Learn to draw in 30 days with public television’s favorite drawing teacher.
Drawing is an acquired skill, not a talent—anyone can learn to draw! All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and the willingness to tap into your hidden artistic abilities. You Can Draw in 30 Days will teach you the rest. With Emmy award–winning, longtime PBS host Mark Kistler as your guide, you’ll learn the secrets of sophisticated three-dimensional renderings, and have fun along the way.

Holiday Crafting and Baking with Kids: Gifts, Sweets, and Treats for the Whole Family by Jessica Strand

Holiday Crafting and Baking with Kids: Gifts, Sweets, and Treats for the Whole Family
Holiday Crafting & Baking with Kids will bring the whole family together for some good holiday fun. Children ages four and up will love selecting their own materials and digging into these cheerful projects.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Who is Bill Gates? by Patricia Brennan Demuth

Who is Bill Gates?
Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was...? biography, children will learn of Gates' childhood passion for computer technology, which led him to revolutionize personal computers.

Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley

Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
How good are you at knowing the minds of others? How well can you guess what others think of you, know who really likes you, or tell when someone is lying? How well do you really understand the minds of those closest to you, from your spouse to your kids to your best friends? Do you really know what your coworkers, employees, competitors, or clients want?

Our Bodies, Ourselves: The Classic-Written by Women, For Women by Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective

Our Bodies, Ourselves: The Classic-Written by Women, For Women
Our Bodies, Ourselves is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions-accurate, evidence-based information, input from leading experts, and personal stories from women who share their experiences.

Complete Guide for Growing Plants Hydroponically by J. Benton Jones Jr.

Complete Guide for Growing Plants Hydroponically
With the continued implementation of new equipment and new concepts and methods, such as hydroponics and soilless practices, crop growth has improved and become more efficient. Focusing on the basic principles and practical growth requirements, the Complete Guide for Growing Plants Hydroponically offers valuable information for the commercial grower, the researcher, the hobbyist, and the student interested in hydroponics. It provides details on methods of growing that are applicable to a range of environmental growing systems.

Slice & Bake Cookies: Fast Recipes from your Refrigerator or Freezer by Elinor Klivans

Slice & Bake Cookies: Fast Recipes from your Refrigerator or Freezer
For those short on time but long on cookie love, Slice & Bake Cookies comes to the rescue! Elinor Klivans, the baking expert behind Big Fat Cookies and Cupcakes!, shares 50 recipes that are quick to mix up, stash in the refrigerator or freezer, and have at the ready to slice and bake whenever a sweet craving strikes.

Scoop: 125 Specialty Ice Creams from the Nation's Best Creameries by Ellen Brown

Scoop: 125 Specialty Ice Creams from the Nation's Best Creameries
A guide to more than two dozen of the nation's best artisan dairies, Scoop takes you on a colorful tour with photos, stories, and histories of these mom-and-pop shops.

The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster By Steve Dalton

The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster
A job-search manual that gives career seekers a systematic, tech-savvy formula to efficiently and effectively target potential employers and secure the essential first interview.
The 2-Hour Job Search shows job-seekers how to work smarter (and faster) to secure first interviews.

Audel Carpenter's and Builder's Layout, Foundation & Framing by Mark Richard Miller and Rex Miller

Audel Carpenter's and Builder's Layout, Foundation & Framing
Here's knowledge you can build on:
Whether you're building a storage shed or your dream house, the same principles govern choosing a site, setting the foundation, erecting the walls, and putting on the roof. This handy how-to guide has been totally revised and updated to cover new building materials and the latest techniques in construction and framing.

Projects for the Young Mechanic: Over 250 Classic Instructions & Plans by Popular Mechanics Co

Projects for the Young Mechanic
From creating artificial pearls to building a steam boiler, these vintage projects for indoors and outdoors offer a tremendous range of possibilities. Over 250 classic plans and instructions explain how to make model airplanes, greeting cards, a motion-picture camera, a radiophone, a cipher code, motor-driven sleds, and other projects.

Monday, February 17, 2014

How to Look Expensive: A Beauty Editor's Secrets to Getting Gorgeous without Breaking the Bank by Andrea Pomerantz Lustig

How to Look Expensive
Glamour's "Beauty Sleuth" reveals tricks of the trade to help you look fabulously high-end—in any economy.Andrea Pomerantz Lustig has spent twenty years as a beauty editor, and her contact list is packed with the names of the most exclusive stylists in the business.

The How-To Handbook: Shortcuts and Solutions for the Problems of Everyday Life by Martin Oliver

The How-To Handbook
Whether you plan on spending your life playing sports, serving clients, running businesses, or flying to the moon, there are certain things that everyone just has to know how to do: unjamming a jar, for instance, fixing a flat tire, and removing a particularly embarrassing stain.